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oppression and discrimination half a block from home :-(
Carl T. Rowan
HBM!! Vote!! Resist!!
eastern swallowtail butterfly, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
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Dear Flickr friends as artists I believe that it is our duty to encourage and promote peace, diversity, unity, understanding, tolerance, equality, love, friendship, diplomacy, encouragement, and support for everyone. We need to help one another, each and every one of us are important we need to drop discrimination and educate all of our children to love one another regardless of their race, gender, caste, age, sexual orientation, disability, or religion. Let's flood Flickr with positivity, love, and caring in 2021!
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
There must never be anything so horrible in human history!!!
As long as I live I will fight against racism, all kinds of discrimination and persecution.
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If we hate someone, we hate something in his image, which sits in ourselves. What is not in ourselves, this excited us not.
Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf.
Hermann Hesse, Demian, The Collected Works Volume 5
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"When the war was over, the soldier came home. But he had no bread. Then he saw a man who had bread. He beat him dead / / You can not kill somebody, said the judge. / / Why not? asked the soldier."
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"All people have a sewing machine, a radio, a refrigerator and a telephone. What do we do now? Asked the factory owners . / / bombs , said the inventor . / / war , said the General . / / If there is no other way, said the factory owners. "
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"Oh, we were looking for you, God , in every ruin, every shell-hole, every night . We have called you God, we have yelled out for you, cried, cursed! Where were you then, dear God?"
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" Responsibility is not just a word , a chemical formula, is white human flesh transformed in the dark earth. We can not let people die for an empty word. Somewhere we must have our responsibility. The dead - not answer. God - not answer. But the survivors ask.
"When they tell tomorrow command , you should not water pipes and no pots to make more - but steel helmets and machine guns , then there is only one choice: Say NO! ".
Wolfgang Borchert, „Lesebuchgeschichten“, in: „Draußen vor der Tür“, (Outside the door) , ISBN 3-499-10170-X, 1956,
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The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm distinguishes between two types of hate:
Reactive Hate
It is always the result of a deep injury or a painful situation, it is powerless against, because they can not change on their own. Erich Fromm writes: "In reactive hate I mean a response that due to an attack on my life, my safety, my ideals, or to another person, whom I love and with whom I am identified.
Reactive hatred always presupposes that someone has a positive outlook on life to other people and ideals. Who is strong life-affirming, will react accordingly if his life is threatened."
Source: Wikipedia, German, Articles: Hate
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FIRST THEY CAME – BY PASTOR MARTIN NIEMÖLLER
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Source: www.hmd.org.uk
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Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, e that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.
The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.
The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".
A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.
The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.
Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.
It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.
The discrimination and division that is currently practiced on the basis of lies makes me very, very sad.
Please do not forget that we all belong to humanity.
Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus
Norfolk
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, e that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.
The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.
The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".
A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.
The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.
Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.
It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.
As of today, people in Bavaria who do not have gene therapy substances administered to them are largely excluded from social life by the so-called 2G rule;
and this, although there is no difference to the syringe recipients in terms of transmissibility of the Covid-19 disease.
Some speak of 'vaccination apartheid' and discrimination -
some compare these rules (the exclusion of a group of people) with events in the period around 1938.
In my opinion, they are right.
"If ignorance were a void it would be easy to fill it with things, with culture, with civilization. But ignorance, my dear friend, is a fullness.
It's a wall, and the walls can only be knocked down, or climbed over. "
Antonio Tabucchi
All of whom embrace the international feeling with a gender equal world, a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #InspireInclusion as quoted from IWD 2024
www.internationalwomensday.com
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
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1. DOSBARTHU: CAIFF POBL EU RHANNU YN "NI A NHW."
2. SYMBOLEIDDIO: GORFODIR POBL I DDANGOS EU HUNANIAETH.
3. GWAHANU: DECHREUA RHAI WYNEBU TRINIAETH WAHANOL FEL RHAN O'R DREFN.
4. DAD-DDYNEIDDIO: CAIFF RHAI EU RHOI AR YR UN LEFEL AG ANIFEILIAID, Â PHARASITIAID, NEU AG AFIECHYDON.
5. TREFNU: MAE'R LLYWODRAETH YN CREU GRŴPIAU PENODOL (HEDDLU/ MILWYR) I ORFODI'R POLISÏAU.
6. PEGYNU: MAE'R LLYWODRAEHLTH YN DARLLEDU PROPAGANDA I DROI'R BOBL YN ERBYN Y BOBL SY WEDI EU DYNODI FEL RHAI DRWG.
7. PARATOI: MAE GWEITHREDU SWYDDOGOL I SYMUD POBL NEU I'W HADLEOLI.
8. ERLYN: DECHREUIR LLOFRUDDIO, DWYN EIDDO A RHOI PRAWF AE LADDFEYDD.
9. DIFA: EIR ATI O DDIFRIF I DDILEU'R GRŴP. "DIFA" YW HWN YN HYTRACH NA "LLOFRUDDIO" GAN Y CAIFF Y BOBL EU HYSTYRIED YN LLAI NA BODAU DYNOL.
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THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE
1. CLASSIFICATION: PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED INTO
"US AND THEM."
2. SYMBOLISATION: PEOPLE ARE FORCED TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES.
3. DISCRIMINATION: PEOPLE BEGIN TO FACE SYSTEMATIC DISCRIMINATION.
4. DEHUMANISATION: PEOPLE EQUATED WITH ANIMALS, VERMIN, OR DISEASES.
5. ORGANISATION: THE GOVERNMENT CREATES SPECIFIC GROUPS (POLICE/MILITARY) TO ENFORCE THE POLICIES.
6. POLARISATION: THE GOVERNMENT BROADCASTS PROPAGANDA TO TURN THE POPULACE AGAINST THE GROUP.
7. PREPARATION: OFFICIAL ACTION TO REMOVE OR RELOCATE PEOPLE.
8. PERSECUTION: BEGINNING OF MURDERS, THEFT OF PROPERTY, TRIAL MASSACRES.
9. EXTERMINATION: WHOLESALE ELIMINATION OF THE GROUP. IT IS "EXTERMINATION" AND NOT MURDER BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT CONSIDERED HUMAN.
10. DENIAL: THE GOVERNMENT DENIES THAT IT HAS COMMITTED ANY CRIME.
the little girl with red ribbon on hair watching cultural show from a distance..... her father is so poor that he can't take off from his business (selling handmade cone ice-cream ) when all people are enjoying the festival. but she wants to join the festival so he take her with him on the place of his business rather near the stage.
Captured from SUST' Sylhet in Pohela Boishak (Bangla New Year festival)
En tant que l'une des minorités les plus ciblées en Occident, les musulmans sont régulièrement confrontés à la menace de harcèlement, de vandalisme et de représentations négatives dans les médias grand public. À son tour, cette discrimination affecte négativement les nombreuses cultures et ethnies associées à la religion. De nombreuses personnes se sentent en danger en dehors des limites de leurs propres communautés culturelles, ce qui ne fait qu'aggraver la ségrégation dans notre société occidentale.
Pour le photographe Marwan Bassiouni, se concentrer sur nos similitudes est la porte d'entrée pour embrasser nos différences. En tant qu'homme musulman égypto-américain-suisse, il a vécu et pratiqué sa religion partout dans le monde, faisant l'expérience de sa perception dans diverses cultures. Pour son projet New Dutch Views, Bassiouni positionne l'expérience islamique comme synonyme du mode de vie hollandais – un rejet de la distinction pour faire place à une intégration transparente.
As one of the most targeted minorities in the West, Muslims regularly face the threat of harassment, vandalism and negative portrayals in mainstream media. In turn, this discrimination negatively affects the many cultures and ethnicities associated with religion. Many people feel unsafe outside the boundaries of their own cultural communities, which only worsens the segregation in our Western society.
For photographer Marwan Bassiouni, focusing on our similarities is the gateway to embracing our differences. As an Egyptian-American-Swiss Muslim man, he has lived and practiced his religion all over the world, experiencing its perception in various cultures. For his New Dutch Views project, Bassiouni positions the Islamic experience as synonymous with the Dutch way of life – a rejection of distinction to make way for seamless integration.
BATTLES over religious symbols in Britain continued when a Christian woman took on British Airways over her cross necklace and a Muslim teaching assistant defended her stance on wearing the veil.
The debate has amplified in the week since British leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw appealed to Muslim women to remove their veils to improve face-to-face communication and prevent separate cultures from taking root in Britain.
Rifts over the veil deepened at the weekend, as opposition politicians accused Muslim leaders of encouraging "voluntary apartheid" by forming closed societies.
The Conservative Party's shadow home secretary, David Davis, said Britain risked social and religious divisions so profound that society's very foundations, such as the freedom of speech, would be "corroded".
Britain's Race Minister also waded in, saying a 24-year-old Muslim teacher who refused to either remove her veil while teaching young children or to work with men, breached sex discrimination rules.
In this latest incident, the teacher, Aishah Azmi, was suspended after complaints from parents that their children could not understand her, especially as many had English as a second language.
The school principal that suspended Mrs Azmi reasoned she did not wear a veil when she was interviewed for the job and face-to-face communication was essential for teaching English as a bilingual support worker.
Mrs Azmi defended her veil as a moral necessity and said to deny her the self-respect and dignity it afforded was discriminatory against Muslim women.
The Sunday Mirror quoted Race and Faith Minister Phil Woolas as saying: "She should be sacked. She has put herself in a position where she can't do her job. She is denying the right of children to a full education … she is taking away the right of men to work in schools."
His comments came as about 60 Muslims demonstrated against Mr Straw, calling him a "Christian fascist".
Mr Straw had said the veil was "a visible statement of separation and difference", not required by Islamic faith.
As a matter of routine, he would ask his Blackburn constituents to show their face while in meetings with him.
Meanwhile, Christian groups were defending the "right" of a Heathrow airport check-in worker to display a necklace with a silver cross the size of a five-cent coin.
British Airways does not permit a cross to be visible, but allows Muslims and Sikhs to wear turbans, hijabs and religious bangles because they "cannot be concealed".
Nadia Eweida, 55, said she had been forced to take unpaid leave over the cross, which was a "silent witness" of her faith in Jesus.
The dispute arose a day after she attended the airline's "diversity training" that taught tolerance towards religions.
Stories of people wanting to protect or protest against a particular expression of faith inundate the British media every day.
A married mother in Rotherham, who had a contraceptive method fail, was aghast that a Muslim-owned pharmacy was allowed to cite religious beliefs in denying her the morning-after pill.
And the Royal Mail wrote an apology to a Muslim woman wanting to post a parcel after staff in Penwortham, Lancashire, refused to serve her unless she removed her veil.
the age.com
We need to all fight for our children to grow up in a world where racism is not prevalent, where lives are not limited and where people are truly judged on their character and not the color of their skin. It boggles my mind sometimes how far from Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream we still are. We have a congress that wants to take away health care, some of these same congressman are saying they honor Martin Luther King Jr. today even though King said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And we have a president who says the most racist things that one can possibly imagine any political leader ever saying. Where does that leave us in the world today? That leaves us, no matter what our race is, to not be silent and to be vocal in the streets. We must stand up for this next generation of beautiful children to have access to a quality public education, to quality health care, to highly skilled jobs, to in all accounts the pursuit of happiness, to an environment that has stabilized and to liberty.
Sometimes, it is really difficult for me, even though I am white, to not despair myself. I feel like our nation has taken steps backwards not forwards with Trump and all the beautiful children I help, regardless of race, I want them to have a life that entails all of these things. But, I also truly believe that if King were alive today, he would encourage people to not give up the fight. We have to remember, as Americans, our country is only worthwhile if we fight for the best it can be and can offer all of our immigrants and citizens both.
Dr. King also said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." We should all make an effort to be kinder, to listen to each other, to be compassionate and to reveal insight and light as a counter to arguments that support discrimination. We are at a time when we all have to fight for human rights. Protests were even less popular during Martin Luther King's time period and he gave his life fighting for justice. Let us be inspired by his bravery not just today but in all days going forwards.
“The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?”
― Mahatma Gandhi
""I dedicate this image to a great friend who has helped me a lot , and a old friend who betrayed me by the back"".
Created for Faestock Challenge #77
Texture www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica/2869484359/in/set-721576...
Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies :-)
― Suzy Kassem
HPPT!!
j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
Front page illustration for 7 Days, a children's newspaper.
It goes with an article about the violence against Jewish people:
there has been a recent growth of hate crimes in Holland, and especially Amsterdam apparently.
Jewish men are afraid to wear their Kippah since it seems to make them an easy target.
Very sad development and worrying given the fact that the Netherlands used to be very liberal.
Hence for example Amsterdam's nickname 'the Gay Capital".
Not any more though..
I was told to not make the boys on the left unrecognizable, to avoid stigmatization of yet another ethnic minority.
Still given the statistics that seems a little odd to me.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), popularly known as Baba Saheb, was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist Movement and campaigned against social discrimination against Untouchables (Dalits), while also supporting the rights of women and labour. He was Independent India's first law minister and the principal architect of the Constitution of India. Source Wikipedia.
As the Moon and Sun, or Water and Oil cannot be Friends, now I know.............
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This is a poem I adore... ,
I dedicate this poem to my grandmother who died in a faraway country, but by my side
It was one of her favorite poems!
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"Life, death, death, life; the words have led for ages
Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed
Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages
Are opened, liberating truths undreamed.
Life only is, or death is life disguised,
Life a short death until by Life we are surprised.
All Nature is taught in radiant ways to move,
All beings are in myself embraced.
O fiery boundless Heart of joy and love,
How art thou beating in a mortal’s breast !
It is Thy rapture flaming through my nerves
And all my cells and atoms thrill with Thee ;
My body thy vessel is and only serves
As a living wine-cup of Thy ecstasy.
I am a centre of Thy golden light
And I its vast and vague circumference,
Thou art my soul great, luminous and white
And Thine my mind and will and glowing sense.
Thy spirit’s infinite breath I feel in me;
My life is a throb of Thy eternity".
Sri Aurobindo
Naba'a, Suburb of Beirut. In 2001 a highway-bridge was constructed in the narrow streets, destroying the urban structure of the area, and causing lots of damage to people's daily life. The bridge looks like it is attached to the buildings surrounding it. So you can imagine how the residents feel about it!!!!!
Is this not a small world that we all live in? Much too small to waste room with hate, belief of superiority, or discrimination.
London, Ohio
There's no discrimination down around Trafalgar Square.
During our walkabout we came across a different sort of crossing light, this is one of them.
I'm guessing that at some point someone decided that having a generic stick figure walking was racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, etc, etc so the city decided they would spend the money to have these lights installed. Seems like a silly way to be spending the public funds in my opinion but then I'm an old traditionalist!
This was shot in (M)anual, I did give the light a little color boost because it looked pretty faded in the original. I think it might have something to do with it being LED and the frequency they operate at. May be something the camera had a hard time catching.
Yes, this is a real photograph taken with a real camera, not a Computer Rendered Artificial Picture!
This is 2020 yet based on the recent events, it feels like it's the 1800s. As I have commented on some previous posts, there are many things that are wrong in our modern societies. What we saw happening in Minneapolis is not an isolated event. Throughout the years we've witnessed racial discrimination, we've seen people being mistreated based on the color of their skin. This issue is not political and as such racism should be condemned by everybody, no matter where they stand politically. I know that this is not a US thing only, however it feels like here it's happening more than anywhere else in the world. It feels like this society was built on "crooked" foundations. And maybe it was, as slavery played a key role, mostly on the Southern States, on how this country evolved through the years and became a world power. But this is not 1874, this is not a sugar plantation in Louisiana. We heard the words "I can't breath" in 2014 when Eric Garner was choked to death by a NYPD officer. 6 years later not much has changed. We heard the exact same words as George Floyd was suffocated by a Minneapolis PD officer. The names and the places don't matter, as history is repeating and innocent lives are lost. Sadly, in the name of these lives people are acting in a way that generates more hatred. Looting and setting Police Departments on fire is not the solution. It will only make things worse and inevitably, we will see more people die. When will this end?
It is so easy to say I love you or we love you. First of all we need to treat each other equal and we hope for the world of no discrimination.
It is my personal experience that I have seen people reacting so differently when you are NOT wearing a mask during this period of pandemic. In some other communities on the other hand I read on the news some people discriminate against people who are wearing masks and view the mask wearing people as sick persons.
There are so many reasons a person is wearing or not wearing a mask. And this should not be reason for you to treat them differently.
I may be framing the picture a little too tight. I want to remind that there are two persons in the scene. One wearing mask and another one does not.
Have a good Easter weekend!
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF 35mm F2
altered book spread "start" to be sent out for Library collaboration.
if u haven't got one yet- hang in there its a comin'...around the mountain when it comes
" Even without discrimination, it is very hard to succeed as an artist " ~ Romaine Brooks – Guerrilla Girls
Yesterday June 24th 2016, US President Barack Obama created the Stonewall National Monument, the United States first national park site dedicated to LGBT history. It was back in 1969 on the 28th of June when at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in Manhattan that the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community took a stand against the prevalent discrimination they were being exposed to as a group and fought for equal rights so it is fitting that after 2 years of rallying from the LGBT community, the National Parks Conservation Association (of which I am a member) and the civic leaders in NYC there is finally a national park that tells the story of the LGBT rights movement. What happened on that day at the Stonewall Inn? Well eight New York City Police Officers conducted a raid of the gay hangout Stonewall Inn for the crime of selling alcoholic drinks to homosexuals which led to the subsequent uprisings by the LGBT community. The tipping point was when a lesbian was clubbed after complaining her handcuffs were too tight, the crowd took to throwing bottles, bricks and overturned police vehicles forcing the eight officers to barricade themselves ironically in the Stonewall Inn until backup arrived.
This image which I captured this week of the iconic Stonewall Inn however has memorial tributes to the tragic and mindless killings that occurred in a club in Orlando earlier this month, candles, flowers and pictures of the 49 dead and 50 injured victims adorn the front of the historic Stonewall Inn and on the barricade that was directly behind me was a banner with the names of all the victims. The shooting was deadliest in US history, and has re-stirred the pot on the second amendment and gun control. These events are distressing and to myself as a loving and proud parent of a member of the LGBT community, it is unnerving to think that if my daughter who is as young as some of the victims when she goes out and has fun could fall victim to a tragic event such as this. Hatred is as old as the human race; biblically speaking, Cain hated Abel and murdered him. Wars have been and continue to be waged because of hatred. One of the signs in the window that probably can’t be made out clearly on the left states “Love conquers hate”, and that is what I pray, that love will conquer hate.
Fund raising is beginning to find a temporary ranger station and eventually build a fitting visitor center for the new National Stonewall Monument.
Taken with Olympus E-5 with a 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD lens RAW image processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-n...
Putting together a jigsaw or building a LEGO set give you the happiness to see things fit in. Often the feeling is so strong, that people forget to separate the LEGO set again and use their creativity to build something new with the LEGO bricks. For that must be the reason for buying a LEGO set and not a jigsaw, isn't it?
Similar to that, it is important for people to fit in well with other people. However, often our creativity and will is not big enough to include those people, who just not fit in. They feel exposed to different kinds of discrimination.
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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Chinatown in New York City is the largest Chinatown in the United States and home to the largest population concentration of Chinese in western hemisphere. It’s located on the lower eastside of Manhattan. The population has been estimated at 150,000 in this ever expanding area. The infamous Five Points Slums is where an enclave of Chinese who were in the United States both legally and illegally settled. They were many who had been in the west originally, opportunities afforded by the gold rush and working on Central Pacific Railroad, but when the gold dried up and the railway complete, the Chinese were driven to large cities in the east, driven back by Mob violence and rampant discrimination. New York’s already diverse immigrant population made it a particularly attractive landing spot, filled with Germans and Irishmen in the Five Points Slums. Even here though there was a great deal discrimination, so the Chinese immigrants segregated. They segregated not only in living arrangements, but really became a self-supporting community, tightly knit structure with an internal groups of governing associations and businesses that provided employment, economic aid, social assistance and most important in what had become a violent part of the city, protection.
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